Watch-chain.



J. J. GONELLY.

WATCH CHAIN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1. 1910.

1,003,090. Patented Sept. 12,1911.

coLUMBlA PLANOGRAPM CO.,WASHINGTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J". GONELLY, OF BRANCH DALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH-CHAIN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. CONELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Branch Dale, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVatcl1Chains, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to watch chains in which term I include the body of the chain, the bar, and the hook.

The general object of the invention is to provide a watch chain, bar and hook all made complete of wire, such as gold filled wire, without the use of metal plates, or bars, or swivels such as are now in common use.

A further object of the invention is to produce a chain in which the body, bar and hook are specially constructed with a view to strength, economy, and beauty.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement and combination of the parts, of the body, bar, and hook of a watch chain, all as hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically set forth in the appended claims.

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may be enabled to construct and use my improved chain, I will now proceed to fully describe its construction and operation having reference to the accompanying drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention and in which- Figure 1 represents, in elevation, a view of a complete chain including body, bar and hook constructed in accordance with my invention, the body being shortened to economize in space, on the drawing, the bar be ing in rear elevation and the hook in side elevation. Fig. 2 represents a View in elevation of the same parts as shown in Fig. 1, the bar being in end elevation and the hook in rear elevation. Fig. 3 represents a top plan view of the bar detached from the chain, and Fig. 4 represents a rear elevation of the bar detached from the chain.

Like reference characters indicate the same parts wherever they appear in the several figures of the drawing.

Referring specifically to the drawing by reference characters, 10 indicates one of the links of the body of the chain which link comprises a main body 11 bent in substan- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 1, 1910.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911. Serial No. 590,186.

tially the form of a horseshoe, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, the ends being brought substantially in parallel planes, as seen at 12, 12, in Fig. 2 and these ends are bent in opposite directions into hooks, also in parallel relation, as best shown at 13, 14, in Figs. 1 and 2.

The foregoing describes the links 10 of the body of the chain, of which only one is shown in the drawing, although there may be as many of these as is deemed necessary to give the desired length of chain.

To assemble the body of the chain it is only necessary to pass the hooks 13, 14 of each link into the body 11 of the next adjacent link and then close up the hooks as clearly shown in Fig. 1. These links, as before stated, are preferably formed of gold filled wire, as is also the watch engaging hook, shown at 15 in Figs. 1 and 2. Obviously, however, the character of the material used may vary.

The watch engaging hook comprises a bill including the portions 15, 16, connected at 17. The bill is bent inwardly at 18 toward the main body 19 of the watch engaging hook to insure an effectual engagement of said hook with the ring of the watch and prevent its accidental disengagement therefrom.

The main body 19 of the hook formed of the folded up continuations 20, 20, of the bars of the point, which are brought toward each other to a point at about midway of their lengths as at 21, from which point they are in close parallel relation until their ends are reached, these ends being turned outward in opposite directions, to form books, as at 22, 22.

To properly connect the body of the chain to the hook, the last link 23 of the body is of special form, its sides being parallel as at 24, 24, its hooks being thus a sufficient distance apart to engage the hooks 22, 22, and to assemble these parts it is only necessary to engage the loop of the link 23 with the hooks 13, 14 and 22 and then close up all of these hooks. The bar indicated at 25, is also preferably formed of gold filled wire and it is made of a single piece. The central portion of the wire of which the bar is formed remains substantially straight as at 26 and at each end it is bent at substantially a right angle and turned back upon itself in U shape as at 27 from whence each end is bent back toward the center as at 28, 29, in substantial parallelism with the straight central portion 26.

The parts 28 and 29 are bent around and about each other to secure all of the parts of the bar in rigid relation and to form a loop to which to attach the body of the chain as follows: The part 29 is bent around the part 28, as at 30 and then carried downward, the end being located at 31, having first passed through a loop 32 formed of the part 28 as hereinafter explained. The part 28 passes through the loop 30 before described and thence between the part 29 and part 26, whence it passes to the left (Fig. 1), as at 33, thence toward the front, around the end 31 of the part 28 at 34, and finally down, again up and around bar 26, forming loop 32, and ending at 35 in the rear of part 26, as located in Fig. 1.

The bar 25 may be attached to the body of the chain by a suitable link connecting the loop 32 with the body 11 of a link 10, such a link being shown in Figs. 1 and 2, having a hook 36 to engage in loop 32 and a hook 37 at a right angle to hook 37 to engage in the body 11 of link 10.

In the form described, I am enabled to produce a watch chain comprising a main ody, a bar, and a hook, together with suitable links to connect the bar and body and body and hook, entirely of ordinary. gold filled wire of any desired weight, and while I have specifically described the exact construction of each and every part, it will be Copies of this patent may be obtained for to, the extremities of the wire being bent around each other with one extremity around said straight portion and formed into a loop to engage a link for connection with the watch chain.

2. A watch chain bar composed of bent wire comprising a straight portion, U

shaped ends at right angles thereto and shorter bars leading from the U shaped ends to substantially the middle of the straight bar, the continuation of one of the shorter bars having its end secured by bending around the other bar, and the continuation of the other shorter bar being bent around the first named shorter bar and the straight bar and formed into a loop to engage a link for connection with the chain.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN J. CONELLY. Witnesses:

THOMAS F. MoGovnRN, JOHN OAVANAGH.

five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

